Executed. Sign our petition to the American Pharmaceutical Association: Petition Text: Ban your members from participating in executions in any way." 27JAN14

I have been against the death penalty, capital punishment, for years. I know there are some people on death row who have committed horrible crimes and have been cruel and sadistic and even taken pleasure when they have killed others. That does not justify doing the same to them, especially in a nation that describes itself as a Christian nation. I am not opposed to keeping these people in prison for the rest of their lives as punishment for their crimes, but I will never be in favor of the death penalty. Let them live out their life in prison and maybe at some point they will make their peace with God before they die. A Christian nation would hold out that hope for these people. The following is from SumOfUs about the cruel execution last week of Dennis McGuire, guilty of murder, undeserving of cruel and unusual punishment. Please click the link to sign the petition calling on the American Pharmaceutical Association to ban their members from participating in executions. 
Two weeks ago, the state of Ohio executed a man using a method that witnesses say was one of the most cruel and unusual in recent history. Dennis McGuire suffered for 24 long minutes before finally passing away -- because Ohio decided to use an untested drug to kill him.
As his adult children sobbed a few feet away, Dennis McGuire suffered for 24 long minutes while Ohio used an untested drug to execute him.
A small group of pharmacists are keeping executions running on experimental drugs after everyone else has refused to participate.
Let's demand that the American Pharmaceutical Association bans their members from participating, and end these cruel executions.

With doctors, nurses, and pharmaceutical companies all refusing to participate in executions, a small group of pharmacists are experimenting with untested, lethal injection cocktails to gruesomely kill people like Dennis McGuire and keep executions happening.
If the American Pharmaceutical Association would ban their members from participating in executions, we could stop lethal injections and end almost all executions in the US.
Tell the American Pharmaceutical Association: Stop your involvement in executions now.
Electric chairs, gas chambers, hangings, and firing squads have been banned by almost all states, leaving lethal injection as the only legal method of killing left. But lethal injection by its very nature requires medical professionals to be involved. Doctors and nurses have long since barred themselves from participating in executions, and they haven’t participated for decades. More recently, all major pharmaceutical companies have banned their drugs from being used.
So states have been been forced to turn to so-called “compounding pharmacists” -- who are not regulated by the FDA -- to develop untested cocktails like the one used to kill McGuire.
Ahead of the American Pharmaceutical Association’s annual meeting this spring, let's tell pharmacists in the US to do something that they should have done decades ago: ban pharmacists from executions and effectively end capital punishment in most states. 
American Pharmaceutical Association: Ban your members from participating in executions.
McGuire was injected with a lethal cocktail that a federal judge conceded ahead of time was an "experiment in lethal injection processes". As his adult children sobbed a few feet away in a witness room, McGuire suffered for 24 long minutes -- calling out to his children and struggling loudly for air. It was one of the longest executions since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999.
Without medical professionals, it would be impossible for states to produce lethal injection cocktails. Doctors and nurses in the US are already banned by their professional associations from participating in state killings. But some pharmacists, a profession that is meant to help and save people, are participating in these killings for a few extra dollars. Let’s call on pharmacists to ban their profeession from participating in capital punishment.
Call on pharmacists to take a stand against any involvement in capital punishment.
Thank you for all you do,
Angus, Kelsey, Martin, and the rest of the team at SumOfUs

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More Information:
Ohio executes inmate using untried, untested lethal injection method, The Guardian, 16 January 2014
Did Ohio's New Lethal-Injection Cocktail Lead to a Cruel and Unusual Death For Dennis McGuire?, Slate, 16 January 2014
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